Job brief: Senior Software Engineer

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• Listed on Datadog's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens careers.datadoghq.com, the address Datadog's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $192,000 to $240,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA · Boston · Denver +8
• Posted: 2022-08-03 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 6+ years of experience
• to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Main duties

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
• Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Lines copied from the posting, not rewritten. "Preferred" or "nice to have" items are not listed as must-haves.

How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in New York, NY: $219k a year (216 listings, 24 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across Datadog's 216 open listings, 52% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Datadog hires

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